Announcing fiscal first quarter results, Japanese flat glass manufacturer Nippon Sheet Glass says its architectural glass business improved in Japan and the US but was still slow in Europe. The company says prospects for architectural markets in Japan remain positive, with an increase in new housing starts from the previous year. But it warns there…

Onyx: A brand new colorful source of energy Onyx Solar has rolled out a complete new full range of colored photovoltaic glass. The new product, which allows any sustainable project to configure a customized design in any color (or combination of colors) while generating clean and free energy. The wide range of tones and colors…

Image credit: Plibrico. • In China, industrial production grew 9.9 percent in the first two months of 2013, while economists had expected an increase of 10.5 percent in the same period. Retail sales increased 12.3 percent in the period from January to February, compared to 15.2 percent in December; experts had predicted a growth of…

“Massive open online courses” initiatives will not be confined to the West. India, via YouTube, has just launched a fairly impressive array of free, organized, undergraduate-level lectures that appear to be aimed, in large part, at providing broad public access to fundamental materials science and engineering topics, including a separate series of 50-60 minute lectures that focused on…